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Assessment of Malingering in a Jail Referral Population : Screening and Comprehensive Evaluation

Psychological assessment of mentally disordered offenders requires a systematic consideration of response styles, including malingering and defensiveness. Important components of these evaluations are standardized diagnostic interviews. However, the ability of offenders to feign mental disorders on such measures to achieve such external incentives as treatment, placement on safer units, or possible release from jail remains uninvestigated. With a known-groups comparison with the data from the Structured Interview of Reported Symptoms as a criterion, 24 suspected malingerers were compared to 64 genuine patients on the Schedule of Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia (SADS), the abbreviated SADS-C, the Suicide Probability Scale, and the Referral Decision Scale.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc278712
Date08 1900
CreatorsUstad, Karen L. (Karen Lee)
ContributorsRogers, Richard, 1950-, Sewell, Kenneth W., Guarnaccia, Charles Anthony, Neal, David M.
PublisherUniversity of North Texas
Source SetsUniversity of North Texas
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis or Dissertation
Formatvii, 154 leaves, Text
RightsPublic, Copyright, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved., Ustad, Karen L. (Karen Lee)

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